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"There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path."
Success
"You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'"
Creativity
"Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power."
Power
"My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day."
Age
"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."
Immigration
"I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese."
Family
"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."
Writing
"It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success."
Success
"I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."
Imagination
"Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses."
Inspirational
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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
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Personal Development
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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Personal Development
"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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Personal Development
"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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Personal Development
"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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Personal Development
"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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Personal Development
"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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Personal Development
"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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Personal Development
"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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Personal Development
"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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Personal Development
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